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Day 27

I had a headache all day with a bit of a scratchy throat; looks like the cold I thought I was over, wasn't. All I got done was 16 rows on a baby hat.

[ID: 16 rows of pastel variegated yarn on a purple knitting loom. End ID]

Day 28

A very low energy day, because yeah, I really wasn't over that cold, ugh. One of the kids needed a jabot for a costume, and instead of talking to me to see what we could fashion with the TONS of supplies we already have (TBF, everyone involved was at least a little under the weather and not thinking well) they bought a POS shirt/jabot combo that cost way too much at S***T H*******N and was non-returnable. I spent far too much time separating the jabot from the shirt, and then pinned everything back together to be sewn up by NOT ME.

[ID: A white jabot,pinned for restitching. End ID]

And a bit later and a bit calmer, I finished the baby hat that I started yesterday.

[ID: A knitted baby hat in pastel variegated yarn. End ID]

ladythmpr

A kid actually wanted to decorate for Halloween, so we dug out the boxes and set some things up outside. Our weather has finally turned fall-like, so I had to wear pants and a sweatshirt!

[ID: Gated home entrance with plants and various kinds of Halloween decor. End ID]

(There were other bits of decorating, but the photo in the dark didn't come out so great.)

After I had a hot chocolate to warm up, I knitted 9 rows on a new baby hat, in a different-colored yarn!

[ID: A purple knitting loom with 9 rows of knitted blue/tan/cream variegated yarn. End ID]

ladythmpr

Day 26

Another Wednesday, and some more work on the SaL cross stitch at the stitch-in

Day 27

I had a doc appointment to look at my knee, and it was an ORDEAL, and once I got home, I simply could not get motivated enough to work on any of my projects. :(

Day 28

More SaL cross stitch

Day 29

Even MORE SaL

Day 30

I altered F's Halloween costume: it was way too long, and showed a bit more of her than she liked, so I spent 3 HOURS doing alterations. I hate that kind of sewing. Shown is the bit I took in at a shoulder; I also had to put in a 4 inch hem on trailing hemline, and it was... frustrating.

Day 31

Does costume makeup count? I say it does! And I did F's Cruella makeup TWICE!

ladythmpr

Days 23-25

These days are kinda blurry, and I may have worked on the cross stitch one or more of the days.

Day 26

I remember the date on this because I had to take the kids to the park after school, as the packers were still packing, so I had time to do another couple of rows in that rectangle on the right.

Days 27-31

We moved on the 27th, and I've been unpacking ever since. 4 days of unpacking just the kitchen stuff, and I might have a working kitchen sometime tomorrow.

I did break out the Halloween decorations this afternoon; I put up a few things, and then my kids went to town...

Current Mood: exhausted

lavenderspark

Sunday we carved pumpkins, mine didn't turn out the way I wanted, but it doesn't look terrible.

Yesterday I painted an old shoe organizer that we had planned to turn into a kind of bench for Halloween decorations. Didn't make it into a bench, but it holds our pumpkins pretty well. I painted it black, but the spray paint I used gave it more of a black/gray patchy look. I left all the dirt and cobwebs on it to give it more of an old feel. I think it turned out better than I anticipated. Unfortunately I ran out of paint, so one side is solid black, but we won't talk about that lol.

Today I finished painting the real estate sign for the haunted house. I still have to glue all the pieces together, but I think it turned out pretty well. Its hard to write with paint and a toothpick.

lavenderspark

I've been really tired lately, so I haven't gotten much done.

I did manage to finish painting the haunted house, and I grabbed some Spanish moss from the front yard to use as grass for it. (I cleaned it before placing it)

Now I'm just working on the fun fannish addition that I decided to do, a real estate sign from the show Surreal Estate.

I cut some scrap wood with a miter hand saw, the pieces were so tiny!

Painted all but the text that needs to go in. There's a base too, I'll glue the post to it so it stands up in the grass.

ladythmpr

Day 28

I started to attach the gold cloth to the top of K's costume. I had NOTHING but problems: curling, bunching, thread breaking, and the bottom of the shirt disintegrating under the stitching. After a frustrating 90 minutes, I stopped and went on to more pleasant activities, like folding laundry.

Day 29

I assessed the gold trim again; I changed the sewing machine needle (I had been using the wrong kind), and changed the thread, but nothing worked, and my skills were not up to trying to make it work and get finished in 3 days. I admitted defeat, and informed K, who wailed and wailed. I promised her we would work on it again starting in January, and have it ready for our local SF convention in May. (And in the meantime, I'll get my machine serviced, because tension was part of the problem, and find a substitute for the gold fabric that isn't as finicky.)

(I took K to a thrift store after school on Wed, and we were able to find her a suitable beautiful costume.)

Day 30

Since I hadn't put my sewing machine away yet, GB asked me to repair the stitching on the waistband of his pants (no picture).

Day 31

The clutter in my office/craft storage space had become overwhelming, and I needed to get things sorted in there so at least I wasn't tripping and slipping and having things fall on my head.

Before

After

And, after returning home from the sugar mugging, I sat down and worked on my cross stitch until I ran out of thread in the needle.

ladythmpr

I think I hate the posting part of this challenge, if I'm being honest...

Day 22

I mostly played catch-up with household stuff, and didn't do any arting or crafting.

Day 23

I put back in the section in the cross stitch that I had to frog on Monday.

Day 24

Hey, some more cross stitch!

Day 25

My local Joann store moved, and had a grand opening sale. I picked up some Halloween-themed beads (like I really needed MORE beads!) and made some Mother/Daughter earrings!

Day 26

A HUGE crafting day today!

I baked and crumb-coated a cake for the birthday party...

And then I started to deal with the costume for K. K had sworn up and down that she'd help, but hasn't wanted to for the past two weeks. I finally got out the material anyway, and she stayed with me for about 10 minutes, before deciding that this was all boring and went back to watch tv. I suppose it's typical for an 8 year old, but I was, and am still, annoyed. I got a long-sleeved shirt from last year to build the costume on, cut a few things on it, ironed on an embellishment, and cut a bunch of yellow strips of material (of which I think I am eventually going to hate dealing with).

Day 27

Unfortunately, F came home sick with a fever from her lesson on Saturday. We waited until the morning to see how she was, and she still had a fever, so we had to postpone the kids' birthday party. That gave me a bit more time to redesign K's costume in my head about a dozen times before deciding that even though the costume looks like a dress in the pictures, I do not have the required skills to make it a dress in reality. So I'm making it a top and skirt. K was pissy when I wanted to do some sizing stuff, and I almost gave up on making this for her. She also wanted to help again and but only stayed about 5 minutes when it became very clear that I wasn't going to let her run the sewing machine by herself. So I finally got the base skirt sewn, except I didn't leave a hole in the casing for elastic, and that's when I knew I needed to stop.

ladythmpr

Day 28: the day of the big twins' birthday party. My lack of RSVPs fortunately was reflected in the attendance; I don't know what I would have done cake wise if 40 more people showed up. As it was, I frosted 3 cakes, which was the extent of my crafting for the day (no pictures).

Day 29: I did find some time to work on the Steotchalong:

Note that the one on the bottom right I started to put in wrong...

Day 30: I needed to get caught up with a bunch of household things that got dumped when I was in so much pain (yes, it's *finally* better!), so the only crafty thing I got done was figuring out how to make the heads of the costumes that my mom made for my kids stand up straighter (and it's still not quite solved, as seen in the pic).

Day 31: After dealing with kids' school things all day, I admitted that I was utterly exhausted, and sent the kids out with their dads for trick-or-treating. I spent that blissfully quiet hour actually finishing week two of the Steotchalong!

lavenderspark

I haven't been good about keeping track of what I'm doing when and this whole week is a just lost. I've been tired with zero motivation for no reason.

But I did make/finish some crafty things this month, so I thought I'd share.

I've wanted to make a Halloween wreath for years. Specifically a Maleficent wreath after seeing a couple online that others had made. This year I finally bought all the items I wanted and put one together.

Unfortunately it's thicker/wider than anticipated and won't allow the outer door to close.

I finally finished the baby blanket I've been working on for a friend. I have to figure out when to get it to her as they'll be moving in a few weeks.

It's only the second blanket I've ever done and the first star.

I don't have anything else I'm working on at the moment. My daughter picked out a costume from the store this year, though I may make her a magic orb (she's going to be a witch) and she wants some creepy make up.

I'm trying to find a pattern for a poncho to make for myself, but can't find one I like.

ladythmpr

(I thought I had posted this last night, but I guess something went wrong...)

My kids had the day off school, so my mom invited us over to her house for a crafting day. She had gotten some balsa skull "birdhouses" and Halloween ornaments for the girls to paint, and haunted gingerbread houses for them to decorate. I had managed to forget to bring the kiwi, but she had some extra ornaments, and she and I painted some too! Here are the ones I painted:

While the kids decorated the haunted houses (which I didn't really want to be near anyway), I went to the nearby Michael's craft store to look around, which is nearly impossible with the littles in tow. While I was looking in the embroidery section, which to my eyes is getting more and more sparse, I spied some of the "large" handled latch hook tools that I have been looking for for at least a year! I used to have several of those, but I lost one and another broke, and the narrow handled tools just make my arm hurt. They had 5; I tried to not be too greedy and took 4. :) They weren't badly priced AND I got a 20% discount!

When we got home, the kids still had energy to burn so we were off to the local park. I snagged the kiwi, and worked in a few stitches. I am beginning to believe that this is going involved a lot of confetti stitches...

ladythmpr

My mom is a very frequent customer at a ceramic painting place (she says it's cheaper than therapy), and they were having a Halloween painting party. So, she invited me and my daughters to come and paint things for Halloween. And bonus, she got to see grandchildren.

I painted a little scarecrow!

F painted an owl plate, and K painted a bat with jack 'o lantern.

The colors will be deeper and brighter once the pieces have been glazed and fired.

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October is National Craft-Making Month!

Entries tagged with halloween

Days 27 and 28 - a little bit

Day 29: Decorating, and different yarn!

The home stretch: Days 26-31

Days 23-31

Days 24-26

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Days 28-31 To the finish line!

Days 22-27 Catch-up post!

Days 28-31: countdown to the end...

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